Acorn Arcade forums: General: Eureka 18
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pwx (12:52 20/8/2012)
Phlamethrower (13:12 20/8/2012)
pwx (13:38 20/8/2012)
Phlamethrower (14:06 20/8/2012)
qUE (15:11 20/8/2012)
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Philip Webster |
Message #120930, posted by pwx at 12:52, 20/8/2012 |
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Found some absolute gems in The ARM Club's Eureka, issue 18:
"Acorn has already said that it sees Apple’s PowerPC
as the platform of the future"
- With ARM now being Apple's CPU of choice for the products that make them the most money, and PowerPC being all but forgotten outside of the Mars Curiosity and the related POWER architecture in Big Blue's big iron.
Worse, this more well-known bit of old news:
"Finally for now, ART has been
whetting our appetites with talk of two
possible new laptop machines, the socalled
Stork and NewsPAD computers.
There are currently no firm plans to
release these as products."
And yet now laptops and tablets are pretty much the form factor of choice for the home market, and a sizable chunk of the professional market. Presumably schools still use desktop machines, but it still doesn't justify the 1-basket approach taken by Acorn during the late period.
With managers like that, Acorn never stood a chance, did they? |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #120932, posted by Phlamethrower at 13:12, 20/8/2012, in reply to message #120930 |
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PowerPC being all but forgotten outside of the Mars Curiosity and the related POWER architecture in Big Blue's big iron. Not quite - the current generation of home consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii) all use PowerPC CPUs.
Of course there's no guarantee that everyone will stick with that architecture for the next generation of consoles. |
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Philip Webster |
Message #120935, posted by pwx at 13:38, 20/8/2012, in reply to message #120932 |
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PowerPC being all but forgotten outside of the Mars Curiosity and the related POWER architecture in Big Blue's big iron. Not quite - the current generation of home consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii) all use PowerPC CPUs.
Ah yes, I had forgotten about those...
Although they aren't a computing environment in the same way that a tablet or laptop is.
[Edited by pwx at 13:38, 20/8/2012] |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #120937, posted by Phlamethrower at 14:06, 20/8/2012, in reply to message #120935 |
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Yes, fair enough - for regular home PC use PowerPC is definitely dead. |
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qUE |
Message #120938, posted by qUE at 15:11, 20/8/2012, in reply to message #120932 |
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I think they'll stick with POWER since it's FP processing is better than other consumer CPUs.
That and IBM will get contracts due to their corporate clique. |
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